Pattern Oriented Frameworks - Need for the hour

Got to know about the project in java.net called J2EE pattern Oriented framework Which has built it patterns like DAOs, Service Locators, Adaptors, MVC etc. This is something interesting and I have been dreaming for this for long long time.

What I really wanted is little different approach. The architect should do more than the design. Every chief architect of any company should bring a pattern oriented framework for their company. I doubt we can use the above mentioned java.net project or x-rad . Because if we use a common framework for this kind of things it will often bring confusions by the garbage stuffs in there. But you can use it as a reference and build your own model for your company. That will really help the RAD approach. How many times we have seen dev teams stuck in getting the basic things right ? Plenty. The main reason is that every engineer is reinventing the wheel all the time which would affect the team efficient heavily.

Think about Ruby. It has gone to it's hype (Yes hype ! ) after the arrival of Rails. See Grails for how easy to do a project there. You will spend no time to get the basic setup done, your designs done etc.
So you need a Grails like model for J2EE. You have a build.xml or maven to create the project. Create what ever model you want. I want a MVC setup with spring MVC, DAOs with hibernate, Mysql back end .. woof .. the build will do the rest. It will create the model with basic stuffs. So you only need to consider on your business domain, not the technical domain. Because you will have the reference implementations for your companies flavor already.

Yes it is pretty hard for a service provider, every time you need to changes your technologies, designs, models etc etc. But thats what the industry is all about. Like the maven ibiblio, have a framework ibiblio repository And every time you have a model in place, just do the prototype work and commit to your framework ibiblio repository

So the need for the hour is an architect (framework architect or infrastructure architect) who should design the prototypes with every patters a company use and maintain a ibibilio like repository in the company.

RAD will be RRRRAD then I am sure !